- Artist: Claude Mellan
- Artist: Nicolas Poussin
- Publisher: Imprimerie royale
Title Page for ‘Biblia Sacra’
1642
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 413 x 261 mm. (16 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.)
Image: 399 x 260 mm. (15 11/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Biblia Sacra, Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1642, 8 vol., in-fol.
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.2755
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
Montaiglon, Anatole de, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Claude Mellan, Abbeville, Briez, 1856, no. 306. Le Blanc, Charles, Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, Paris: E. Bouillon, 1854-1888, no. 1.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: LwrC in pl.: 'BIBLIA SACRA. / Parisiis MDCXLII / E TYPOGRAPHIA REGIA.'; BL in pl.: 'N. Poussin in.'; BR in pl.: 'CMellan S.'; TLC (brown ink): '2'; TRC (brown ink): 'o[?]'. VERSO: C (graphite): '92'; LL: red Claghorn stamp; BLC (graphite): '16425' & (graphite in diamond): '5595'; BRC (graphite): 'HN11', & '6' & (black ink): 'No: [5?]1' & '2'.
Markings: none - none
